Capitolo 94
and says, "I, should like Gentlemen to tell him one of the fables of AEsop."
This did every one intensely listen. Then Demades started: "Demeter, a
You swallow, and an Eel both once together travelling, and it came to a river
without a bridge: the Swallow flew him/it on, and the eel swam through";
and then he stopped him. "What did it happen to Demeter?" cries a lot of people
in the public. "Demeter", he responded, "it is very angry with you for
listening to fables when you should be minding public business."
THE MONKEY AND THE DOLPHIN
When people follow a their trip they often pick up with them womb-dogs or
monkeys as pets to wile by the time. It fell out this way that a man
returning to Athens from the east had a pet Monkey on axle with him.
As they drew near to the coast of Attica a great burst of storm on them, and
the ship overturned. All on axle you/they were thrown in the water, and experimented
to be saved himself/herself/themselves swimming, the Monkey among the rest. A Dolphin
sees him/it, and, imagining that him pits a man, the takings on his/her back and
started to swim toward the beach. When they became the Piraeus near that
it is the I bring of Athens, the Dolphin asked to the Monkey if him pits a
Athenian. The Monkey answered that he was, and you/he/she added that he came of
a very separate family. "You clearly know, then, the Piraeus,"
the Dolphin continued. The Monkey thought him you/he/she was reporting himself/herself/itself to some
official tall or other, and he/she answered, "Oh, yes, he is a friend a lot of old man
of mine." To that, discovering his/her hypocrisy, the Dolphin was this way
it disgusted that him him plunged under the surface and the unlucky Monkey
you/he/she was quickly drowned.
THE CROW AND THE SNAKE
A hungry Crow spied a Snake that lies dormant in a sunny spot, and, choosing
it above in his/her claws, he was bringing him/it street to a place where he was able
makes a meal of his without being disturbed, when the reared of his/her Snake
head and piece him. It was a poisonous Snake, and the bite was fatal,